LocalChristchurch People's Climate Parade Sat 28Nov15 12:30PM Climate March Aotearoa climatemarch.nz of
New Zealand Peoples Climate March.org.nz
350 Aotearoacommunity group
350.org.nz/Christchurch &
Otautahi of US & global 350.org/riders +
350riders.org & CAN stickers +
Power Shift NZ-Pacific "the biggest youth climate summit NZ has ever seen" 7-9Dec12 powershift.org.nzFebruary hottest month on record to date "February is so far the hottest month on record in most parts of New Zealand. The National Institute for Weather and Atmospheric Research says the temperatures are comparable to the country shifting north by five or 10 degrees latitude, and high humidity levels have added to it. NIWA says many North Island sites and some parts of the South Island are on target to break mean monthly temperatures for February. Senior climate scientist Georgina Griffiths says new records include 41.3 degrees recorded in Timaru on Waitangi Day" radionz.co.nz 15Feb11 +
World experts converge in Wellington for the Extreme Weather Conference 11Feb11
NIWA/climate2010: Warm, wet and cloudy Chch "average daily maximum temperatures last month of 23.5 degrees Celsius were 2.5C above normal, the highest since 1990. Daily minimums in December averaged 12.2C, 1.8C above normal. The month's mean temperature of 17.8C was 2.1C warmer than the long-term average, making it the hottest December since 1988" The Press 4Jan11 & Rangiora peaks during warmest December "national average temperature was 17.2degC - 1.6degC warmer than the 1971-2000 December average" 6Jan11Anesthetising Our Way of Life "we're well on the way to sharing a similar fate as the 14th century Easter (or 'Rapanui') Islanders" Peter Lloyd interview RNZ 27Feb06 zefamedia report + link * * * * *A Rocha "Christian nature conservation org.. projects.. frequently cross-cultural in character, & share a community emphasis, with a focus on science & research, practical conservation & environmental education" UK global +
ClimateStewards.org.uk "For Tomorrow Today" + Climate Community & Biodiversity Alliance "partnership of research institutions, corporations & environmental groups"
CCBA climate-standards.orgBiofuel solar etc - Peak Oil link page + Energy LibraryBoston, Professor Jonathon VUW Climate Change & Governance Conference 28-29Mar06 Te Papa &
presentations; 'acidification of oceans risk' etc re Stern on RNZ, & 'too little too late' govt policy 14Dec06Canterbury most at risk from rising sea levels - report "A leaked government report predicts rising sea levels is putting hundreds of thousands of homes at risk. The Ministry for the Environment report, delivered to the Government in April, shows homes in Canterbury and Hawke's Bay are most at risk. The report warns sea levels could rise up to 40 centimetres by 2050. Climate scientist Jim Salinger told Mike Hosking those numbers aren't alarmist. 'What was once a one in 20 event, this is king tides now is occurring two thirds of the time. What that means is your king tides are even higher.' He said the government's chequebook will have to come out if it's to protect against rising tides. 'If you look at places like Holland who have built dikes that's a huge amount of investments, you are talking trillions of dollars.'" NewstalkZB 4Sep17 +
Some New Zealand climate change impacts may already be irreversible, Government report says "effects are likely to worsen.. the country's glaciers had lost nearly a quarter of their ice since 1977, and sea levels had risen between 14 centimetres and 22cm at four main ports since 1916.. Soils in some areas had become drier and both the acidity and the temperature of the ocean had risen. Last year was the country's warmest year since records began and the five warmest years on record had occurred in the last 20 years. The number of extreme weather events had increased, as had the insurance cost of those events.. New Zealand had the fifth-highest emission levels per person in the OECD.. situation is delicate at present and we remain at risk from possible effects from future volcanic eruptions" Our Climate and Atmosphere report by Ministry for the Environment & Statistics NZ video Stuff 19Oct17 * * * * * * * * * *CarboNZeroCertTM "a Certification Programme for Minimising Climate Change Impacts ..a simple way for companies to mitigate the global warming effect of the burning of fossil fuels" Landcare Research +
"Trade Me & the environment"Carshare.co.nz "free resource for car-sharing and car-pooling within NZ" [defunct] +
Eco-Friendly Transport Week "to encourage people to walk, bike, bus or car-share" 6-10Nov06 [defunct] +
Smart Travel.org.nz RideShark app May17celsias.co.nz & Celsias.com "helps people discuss Climate change, then create & manage projects to reduce global warming.. Seven modest founders.. NZ" Celsias Foundation + Vicky Buck on biofuels + links * * *Change: Signs of Change "national e-conference showcasing transition to sustainability. One Nation, Two Days, Forty Signs of Change" UoC 15-16Nov10 Chch & local live connections to venues in Dndn Wgtn PmstnNth AckdChch choc-maker goes green "persuading Americans to pay for climate change by buying its bars.. donates US55c from each bar to American carbon offset operator TerraPass to pay for 60kg of carbon offsets" Press 7Jun08
NZ Climate InfoHelp Weather link page section + Water pageClimaction "System Change Not CLimate Change: OUR TWO DEMANDS - (a) Beyond Kyoto - 90% reduction in greenhouse gas (b) Frequent & fare free public transport now" blog climaction.org.nz &
Climaction myspace.com +
Climate Camp NZ "The necessary solutions already exist; we just need to put them into practice" .org.nz .org.uk * * * * *Climate Change Ministry for the Environment MFE
NZ Climate Change Office +
4million.org.nz/climatechange +
Projects to reduce emissions PREClimate change means changing practices ECanReport Feb07 localeye +
Step Up Canterbury "Expo & Auction" World Environment Day 5Jun08
360 Degree Events Ltd * * * *Climate change could spell 'extreme poverty' in coastal NZ towns Granity etc Stuff 22Apr17Climate-change legislation wins solid backing from all parties in Parliament "phased in over five years.. up to 200 big emitters" nzherald.co.nz 21Sep07 &
Fossil-fuel cost crunch to hit in 2010
NZ Herald Climate change newsClimate change: New Zealand's hot topic clip tv3.co.nz 31Jul07NZ Climate Change Relay Oct07-08 +
KlimaStaffel German Climate Relay Jun04
ClimateAlliance.org Eurocities&IndigRainforestPpls +
Green Torch Relay 07 Lewis & Clark College US &
Focus The Nation global warming solutions * * * * *ClimateDebateDaily.com extracts "to deepen our understanding of disputes over climate change" Eds Patrick Whittle & Douglas Campbell was Denis Dutton UoC Chch + links+++ * * * * * * * * * *Climate study puts NZ in hot water "Swimmers in New Zealand waters would have enjoyed spa-like seawater temperatures of up to 30degC about 50 million years ago, according to a new study. Scientists says the study could also mean it is possible that future warming projections are being underestimated and the world could get a lot warmer than previously thought.
The early Eocene, around 50 million years ago, has long been recognised as a time of pronounced global warming.
But until now, the degree of warmth was uncertain.
Now a group of scientists, led by palaeontologist Chris Hollis, of GNS Science, have determined that surface sea waters around New Zealand exceeded 30degC and water at the sea floor hovered around 20degC during what they believe is a 2-3 million year episode of greenhouse gas-induced global warming.
'These temperatures are at the extreme end of modern tropical water masses,' Dr Hollis said.
In the study that will be published in the international scientific journal Geology next month, scientists have inferred warm climate conditions in New Zealand for this time period from a wide range of fossil evidence.
They used geochemical methods for extracting sea temperatures from sedimentary rocks exposed in the bed of the Waipara River in North Canterbury.
Tropical temperatures at this high latitude location presented a huge challenge for climate modellers, Dr Hollis said.
Computer models said New Zealand sea temperatures during the Eocene did not exceed 20degC.
'Anomalously warm conditions have also been reported for early Eocene records from high latitude regions in the Northern Hemisphere,' Dr Hollis said.
'It now seems likely that some, as yet unknown, heat transport mechanism comes into play during times of extreme global warmth.'
Co-author Matt Huber, of Purdue University in Indiana, said the new findings were at least 10 degrees warmer than scientists had previously thought for the time period.
'It suggests that existing temperature reconstructions for this period have been biased toward overly cold values.
'It also indicates that climate models tend to under-estimate temperatures during past climate warming episodes. It is possible that models are also under-estimating future warming projections.'
Dr Hollis said further research into the causes of extreme climatic changes in New Zealand's geological past would benefit from New Zealand's recent decision to join the Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme - an international geoscience programme that operates a drilling ship that can recover sediment cores up to 2000m in length from beneath the ocean floor. The ship will be conducting a research leg off the coast of Canterbury in November 2009." 3news.co.nz 29Dec08 &
Scientists gather in Wellington for conference on climate change "World authorities on the history of climate change are converging on Wellington for a conference on the greenhouse climate of the Paleogene period, 65 to 35 million years ago.
The Paleogene was the last time that the Earth experienced greenhouse climate conditions and associated global warming on a scale comparable to projected future global warming.
The conference will include a one day 'Greenhouse Earth Symposium' on January 14 in which leading international research scientists will showcase the role that research into the ancient greenhouse world of the Paleogene plays in advancing understanding of modern climate change.
Presentations will be targeted toward a non-specialist audience with an interest in the science behind climate change and, specifically, greenhouse gas-induced global warming.
A common theme to several presentations is the discovery that during times of extreme global warming sea temperatures in polar and temperate regions, such as New Zealand, soared to levels far higher than is predicted by climate models.
The conference, 'Climatic and Biotic Events of the Paleogene', has drawn together 130 scientists and students from over 20 countries, and runs from January 12 to January 15.
The conference will be preceded and followed by field excursions to examine New Zealand's unique record of climate change during Paleogene times in Canterbury, Marlborough, Otago, Westland, Hawkes Bay and even the Chatham Islands.
It is hosted by GNS Science and the Greenhouse Earth Symposium is sponsored by Victoria University of Wellington through the Climate Change Research Institute, the Antarctic Research Centre and the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences" 4Jan09 &
IPredict to offer trades on climate change 9Jan09 &
Climate change conference looks to steamy Paleogene period "Climate experts today began a major conference in Wellington canvassing evidence of climate change before humans evolved.
The conference at Te Papa, organised by GNS Science, is probing evidence of greenhouse effects in the climate of the Paleogene period, 65 to 35 million years ago.
This is thought to be the most recent time the Earth experienced global warming on a scale similar to what is now being projected as a result of human activity.
On Wednesday, leading scientists will stage a one-day symposium to showcase the role that research into the ancient greenhouse world can play in advancing understanding of modern climate change.
Speakers will explore the role of greenhouse gases in driving Paleogene episodes of extreme global warming, the effects that warming had on biological systems, how natural feedback systems modulate climate and atmospheric greenhouse gas levels and the effectiveness of climate models in simulating greenhouse climate states.
Conference organiser Chris Hollis said there was growing evidence that temperatures in high latitude places like New Zealand have been far higher than previously thought.
In a paper on global temperature over the past 100 million years, Professor Peter Barrett, of Victoria University, said the 'greenhouse world' was 6degrees Celsius to 7 degrees Celsius warmer than today with only small ice sheets in the interior of Antarctica.
Antarctic ice core records from relatively recent times showed a close association between atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and temperature over the past 800,000 years.
'It seems that from a geological perspective, without concerted intervention now, there is a credible risk of Earth's climate, by the end of the century, reverting to greenhouse world temperature, but with 'residual' polar ice sheets,' he said." 12Jan09Coal Action Network Aotearoa wordpress.com blogCommissioner warns property owners that banks and insurers are focusing more on risks of rising sea levels; LIM warnings possible; Maps being drawn up "Jan Wright appeared before the Local Government and Environment select committee to discuss her recent report 'Changing climate and rising seas: Understanding the science', which spelt out that a 30cm rise in sea levels by 2050 was already 'baked in'.. Christchurch a 'glimpse into the future'" interest.co.nz 19Feb15Communities for Climate Protection CCP-NZ &
International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives ICLEI.org Global "Local Governments for Sustainability" +
ClimateMayors.com Australasian Mayors Council for Climate ProtectionCutting Edge Technology Provides New Info On Climate Change "carbon budgets.. greenhouse gas accounting" Landcare Research MediaR 1Aug07Cycling in Christchurch "Regular people riding bicycles" news blog shop etc +
Sunday Afternoon Cycling Church PROSACC Ilam Baptist Church Chch & Steven Muir
Cycletrailers.co.nz +
Utility Cyclism "how to encourage an increase in the numbers of cyclists" Alan Preston blog &
Urban Bicycles "resource.. Utility cycling is transport" +
theElectricBicycle.co.nz "Electric Bike Kits.. Electric Powered Bicycles" +
Vorb.org.nz "forums about cycling, events, news, vaguely organised rides, videos & 1000s of photos" +
Bikely.com "helps cyclists share knowledge of good bicycle routes" cUK+Environmental Defence Society climate change policies Ackd + linksExtreme wind caves in Mt Cook bar "up to 180kmh.. indescribable.. water damage throughout.. huge mess everywhere" The Press 25/10/2011Frazer Lindstrom Ltd "NZ's leading independent climate change & energy sector consultancy" AckdFuel prices delay emissions scheme Windflow opening TVNZ 6May08Flexible Land Use Alliance "represents some of NZ's largest exporters.. other key players.. primary industries.. to ensure continued land use flexibility in the event of the introduction of.. NZ Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)" &
New Land Use Alliance Focussed on Planting Eroding Land MR 28Feb08 scoop +
infonews links +
Greens support for forestry offset conditional Jeanette Fitzsimons MP 19Mar08 +
Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium PGGRC "livestock farmers.. knowledge & tools to mitigate ghg emissions" & Greenhouse Gas & Animal Agriculture conferenceFuture Focus "Signposts to Success for NZ's Primary Industries" strategic foresight project MAF 07Greenhouse Gases & Animal Agriculture Conference GGAA2007 "developing livestock systems for greenhouse & productivity benefits" 26-29Nov07 ChchGreenhouse Policy Coalition "to achieve a climate change policy framework that secures for NZ a growing, competitive, profitable & sustainable business sector"Green PartyClimate Change & Air Quality greens.org.nz +
Turn Down the Heat doc/pdf +
Action, not warnings, needed now on carbon emissions
"regulations now to cover the immediate requirement for action, and then get cracking on putting a pricing system for carbon emissions in place" 12Feb07 &
Sustainability cannot happen without Green economics "It is Government's role to ensure business can be profitable by being sustainable" 11Feb07 +
Climate For Change "political implications of the current 'environment' & delves into various alternative political theories to those currently being pursued" talk.mov PlaNet 11Jun07Greenpeacestop climate change +
bethechange.org.nz + Yes2Wind + links +
SignOn.org.nz "global agreement for action. For NZ to do its bit to help avoid catastrophic impacts, John Key needs to go to Copenhagen & Sign On to reduce NZ's emissions by 40 per cent by 2020" +
EyesWideOpen.org.nz "calling for a 40% reduction (from 1990 levels) target.. based on the science, it is our fair share" +
Planet A - Concert & March 5Dec09HillaryInstitute.org.nz Hillary Symposium on Climate Change 5Jun08 Christchurch Art GalleryHot-Topic.co.nz "Global warming & the future of NZ" Gareth Renowden bk blogInsight: Climate change and 'waterproofing' NZ's cities RNZ 5Nov17July rainfall topples records across South Island RadioNZ 4Aug17 +
No August reprieve from wet weather 3Aug17 then
record dry November 1Dec17
the driest on record in Rotorua Rotorua Daily Post 5Dec17 * * * * * * * * * *Locavore365.org "Eat locally 365 days of the year" Simon O'Sullivan + globalThe Lincoln Resource "land-based research.. application in business.. networking & collaboration, cluster" not climate + linksNew Zealand refuses climate change refugees - mass action is now needed "court of appeal has refused refugee status to a family from Kiribati, a Pacific island which is quickly sinking beneath the sea" Morgan Godfery The Guardian UK 12May14NZ leads in emissions rise "fossil-fuel emissions have soared by 72 per cent since 1990, the biggest jump in the developed world.. IEA" The Press 29Jul09
Annual NZ Marine Sciences Society NZMSS.rsnz.org/conference Ackd 09Our changing climate Possible Challenges thegreatnzscienceproject.co.nz msi.govt.nz 2013Prue Taylor NZ Centre for Environmental Law UniAckd bk
An Ecological Approach to International Law & essay
The Significance of the Earth Charter in International Law /
ECANZ Earth Charter /
World Ocean Network TOPSRainwater Collection Solutions Ltd Vivian McFie Chch + Bailey Tanks AckdReasons to be Optimistic on APEC Climate Talks NZ Business Council for Sustainable Development scoop 13Jul07Renewable Energy NZ RENZ Foundation 05 charitable trust "To bring together private, public, educational & scientific interests towards the common goal of a sustainable, renewable, clean energy economy.. support research into the development & commercialisation of technologies associated with all aspects of the Hydrogen Economy"Rise in methane levels alarm NIWA scientists "Kiwi scientists near Wellington have picked up on a rise in methane levels coming from the Southern Hemisphere.
It is troubling news not just for New Zealand but the world, though climate change sceptics remain unconcerned.
The southernmost tip of the North Island is the best place to measure clean, unadulterated Southern Hemisphere air and scientists have picked up a disturbing trend.
NIWA scientist Keith Lassey says new findings show a sudden jump in methane levels.
'The amount of methane in the atmosphere has started rising again after three or four, five years, about five years of relatively static levels in the atmosphere,' he says.
Scientists at the NIWA testing station down south say methane levels have experienced a 0.7 percent rise over the last two years.
The increase is 35 times more than all the methane produced by New Zealand cows in a year.
'Livestock account for one quarter of human-caused emissions and the rest of its shared between things like coal mining, gas mining, rice agriculture and burning rainforests,' says Mr Lassey.
The station at Baring Head is one of fewer than 50 measuring stations around the world; it takes in fresh air and calculates the amount of greenhouse gasses like CO2 or methane in the atmosphere.
Climate sceptics argue methane is simply a scientific scare story because it only stays in the atmosphere for around eight years and its influence is short-lived.
Mr Lassey says the problem with methane is its dramatic effect on global temperatures while it does remain in the air.
'In New Zealand, methane is 30 percent of our emission problem and we're really obligated to trying to look for ways in which we can reduce that,' he says.
The findings at the station are too late to provide further evidence to Copenhagen negotiators, who failed to come up with an agreement to combat climate change.
The rise is, however, likely to create ripples internationally.
NIWA scientists say the sharp rise in methane levels found in New Zealand are entirely consistent with what's being found at similar testing stations around the world.
NIWA say the findings clearly illustrate that climate issues continue, despite political negotiations at Copenhagen coming to a standstill." 3news.co.nz 22Dec09Save Happy Valley "campaign.. to try to slow climate change"
Buller & Walk the WalkSnow making to increase as climate changes "In many cases, snow making infrastructure was considered under-utilised now as it was only needed in the first few weeks of the season" 26Jul12Southern climate once like Queensland "Antarctica's Lush, Warm Past Confirmed ..Earth could again heat up in a few hundred years as fossil fuel burning accelerates carbon dioxide (CO 2) to the levels which allowed the lush forests to thrive near the South Pole" stuff.co.nz/science 2Aug12Sustainable Energy Forum "to promote the transition" sef.org.nz + linksTransition Towns NZ Aotearoa "communities..respond to the twin challenges of climate change & peak oil" + UK +
TransitionCulture.org blogWalk for the Planet "opportunity for people during Lent to express concern for the well-being of planet Earth, and to share hope for the future.. 40 days.. in 2009.. journey from Rakiura (Stewart Island) to Poneke (Wellington), following the path of State Highway One" walk4theplanet.org.nz &
blog CWS.org.nz